richhodg66
06-09-2015, 09:09 AM
I know where an old Remington .300 H&H is, it's either a professionally sporterized Enfield or it was one of the ones Remington sold commercially between the wars that was on that same action. I've always been kind of enamored by the round and happen to have a set of dies for it for some reason.
The rifle is in kind of rough shape, but was nicely done and could probably clean up well enough. Can't really tell how the bore is. It has an old Denver Redfield on it, so someone owned it who knew his stuff at one time, good scope and mounts. I think I could get it pretty inexpensively, it is in a shop that I don't go by often, went by twice in the past couple of years and it is still there, or was a month or so ago. Not likely to move fast because of the caliber, I think.
The .300 H&H is neat, but if this one won't shoot well with cast, would a rifle like this be a good candidate for reboring? Gotta admit to having an itch for a .458 for years that never got scratched, and it seems to have come back lately, would there likely be enough meat in a .30 caliber barrel for that and would the magazine still work without a lot of work?
The rifle is in kind of rough shape, but was nicely done and could probably clean up well enough. Can't really tell how the bore is. It has an old Denver Redfield on it, so someone owned it who knew his stuff at one time, good scope and mounts. I think I could get it pretty inexpensively, it is in a shop that I don't go by often, went by twice in the past couple of years and it is still there, or was a month or so ago. Not likely to move fast because of the caliber, I think.
The .300 H&H is neat, but if this one won't shoot well with cast, would a rifle like this be a good candidate for reboring? Gotta admit to having an itch for a .458 for years that never got scratched, and it seems to have come back lately, would there likely be enough meat in a .30 caliber barrel for that and would the magazine still work without a lot of work?